Fotografia de António Gedeão

António Gedeão

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Rómulo Vasco da Gama Carvalho was born in Lisbon in 1906 and died in the same city in 1997.
Poet, playwright, scientist, and historian, with a degree in Physical-Chemical Sciences from the University of Porto. Under his own name, Rómulo de Carvalho is the author of numerous volumes popularizing scientific culture, published in the 1950s and 60s in the "Science for Young People" collection by Atlântida, and in the 1970s in the "Scientific Initiation Notebooks" by Sá da Costa, followed in subsequent decades by several school textbooks. He also conducted research on the history of science in Portugal. As a poet, under the pseudonym António Gedeão, he is a contemporary of the "Presença" generation, but only emerged in the second half of the century, being hailed at the time of his revelation by David Mourão-Ferreira as a "completely new" voice in the poetic landscape of the 1950s (cf. Twenty Contemporary Poets , 2nd ed., Lisbon, Ática, 1980, pp. 149-153). This originality was due, among other traits, to the incorporation of the traditions of the first and second modernisms, the choice of a rigorously cadenced and rhythmic style, the expression of the collective unease and anguish of post-war Man, and the frequent use of terminology and imagery from the scientific field. Jorge de Sena (cf. introductory study to the second edition of Complete Poems , Lisbon, Portugal, 1968) and Fernando J. B. Martinho (cf. Dominant Trends in Brazilian Poetry of the 1950s , Lisbon, Colibri, 1996, pp. 428-433) point out in António Gedeão's poetry the recurrence of rhetorical devices that allow us to consider the author's poetry within the context of neo-Baroque. Perpetual Motion.
Several of his poems were also popularized through music, such as, for example, Carriche Sidewalk, The Speech of the Born Man, Black Tear and Philosopher's Stone , the latter of which, composed and sung by Manuel Freire, achieved unusual success.

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